OLD WORLD VULTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Old World vulture mean? 

• OLD WORLD VULTURE (noun)
  The noun OLD WORLD VULTURE has 1 sense:

1. any of several large vultures of Africa and Eurasia

  Familiarity information: OLD WORLD VULTURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLD WORLD VULTURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several large vultures of Africa and Eurasia

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Old World vulture" is a kind of...):

vulture (any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrion)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Old World vulture"):

griffon; griffon vulture; Gyps fulvus (large vulture of southern Europe and northern Africa having pale plumage with black wings)

bearded vulture; Gypaetus barbatus; lammergeier; lammergeyer (the largest Eurasian bird of prey; having black feathers hanging around the bill)

Egyptian vulture; Neophron percnopterus; Pharaoh's chicken (small mostly white vulture of Africa and southern Eurasia)

Aegypius monachus; black vulture (of southern Eurasia and northern Africa)

Holonyms ("Old World vulture" is a member of...):

Accipitridae; family Accipitridae (hawks; Old World vultures; kites; harriers; eagles)